I found this Perl6 imaginary timeline hilarious. Sadly we’re in 2008 and I don’t think that blue line is quite as high as it was projected to be. Though it appears that development is still slowly chugging along. I still check up on Perl 6 once every six months or so. You […]

It’s been a while since I acquired PAIP. I can’t say I’ve read all of it over the past couple months, but I’ve read most of it.
The initial chapters that give an intro to Common Lisp seem largely useless to me. There are better books to introduce Common Lisp (especially now that we […]

After saying I didn’t want to throw money at this problem, I threw money at it. I checked out some other VPS hosts and none of them offered anything substantially different than my host, at least not at the price I’m paying. So I paid to double the RAM for my server on […]

After sleeping on it, I think I’m going to switch hosts and try to keep going with SBCL and Hunchentoot.
If you’re reading this and you know of a VPS unmanaged web host that’s known to work well with SBCL, could you please comment and let me know what host you use, and what […]

In spite of my previous efforts I’ve still been getting memory exhaustion errors on my Lisp-driven website. (If you click this link, you’ll notice that the site is down. Read on.)
It’s not a lot of fun having to kill and restart SBCL every 2 days. So I decided to restart SBCL one […]

My origami website server kept hitting a limit on “privvmpages”, which is a cap (by the VPS) on some aspect of system memory. SBCL died with some interesting notes about heap exhaustion. I already had to hack SBCL even to get it to start on my server. And now this. I’m running […]

I made an RSS 2.0 feed for my origami gallery the other day. Thanks to CL-WHO this is trivial. Here’s the complete code:
;; RSS
(defun rss ()
(cl-who:with-html-output-to-string (s nil :prologue “<?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”ISO-8859-1\” ?>”)
(:rss :version “2.0″ :|xmlns:atom| “http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”
(:channel […]

Two posts in one, just because I can.
Rambling #1: One thing that makes a language like Ruby easy to read is that foo.bar always has the same meaning: object.method.
In Common Lisp you don’t have that. One of CL’s strengths is that everything looks the same, it’s all s-expressions. However a cost of this […]

My Common Lisp-powered origami photoblog is still up and running smoothly so far. (I posted more models, go look, shameless plugs and so on and so forth.) No major problems to report in the past couple weeks.
One huge benefit (in my opinion) of a site run on Common Lisp is the way you […]

There’s apparently some excitement over Arc which is a new Lisp being designed from scratch by Paul Graham.
There are a lot of varied opinions in the Lisp world about this, I guess. Many people are saying Arc is no different than a hundred other failed attempts to make a new Lisp over […]